User:Doc James/Videos/RfC

Summary Videos within Wikipedia

Video about acute vision loss.

Efforts to add more video content to Wikipedia is partly based on a community consultation in 2015 which found rich content such as video was the second highest request by our readers.[1] Videos of Wikipedia content being machine read are fairly popular on Youtube with one channel having 100s of such videos with more than 20K views each.[2] Visual content such as video was also listed as one of our knowledge gaps in a Feb 13th, 2019 report by the WMF.[3]

Concerns were previously raised that summary style videos were not easy to collaboratively edit or update and thus we should avoid using them. This has changed with the creation of meta:Wiki Video, an open source project by the Wikimedia movement and hosted on WMF Clound Services.

References

Further details

• The videos are based on scripts from Wikipedia such as HERE
• All visual content (images, gifs, short video segments) within the final videos are pulled from Commons.
• The video (the text and media) can be editable/updatable wiki style.
• The videos have captions with inline references built automatically from the script.
• At the end of the video the software automatically adds:
  • The license of the text of the video (CC BY SA),
  • Attribution of the authors of the script,
  • The metadata for the references.
• The authorship of the images and the licenses are stated at the bottom of each image.